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The Samsung Galaxy J5 is an Android smartphone produced by Samsung Electronics.[1] It was unveiled and released in June 2015.[2] It has Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 SoC that is backed by 1.5 GB RAM and that has a 64 bit processor, 32bit mode OS.

It has a 13 megapixel rear camera with an LED flash, f/1.9 aperture, auto-focus and a 5 megapixel wide-angle front facing camera which can extend up to 120°, also equipped with an LED flash.[2]

Specifications

Hardware

The phone is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 410 chipset that has a 1.2 GHz processor, Adreno 306 GPU and that is backed by 1.5 GB RAM with 8 GB of internal storage and a 2600 mAh battery. J500G model comes with a 2100 mAh battery. Samsung Galaxy J5 is fitted with a 5-inch HD Super AMOLED display.[2] The South Korean variant adds support for T-DMB & Smart DMB. The phone has a plastic chassis and plastic back cover.[3]

According to the BLE Checker app, the phone supports Bluetooth Low Energy devices.[4]

Software

This phone comes with Android 5.1.1 Lollipop and is upgradable to Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.[2] It supports 4G LTE with dual SIM enabled 4G and Voice over LTE. It also supports Samsung Knox.[4] In 2016, it received an update to support Samsung S-Bike Mode[5]

Model Date Regions
SM-J500F 13 June 2016 India, United States and Turkey
SM-J500M 26 June 2016 Panama, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia
SM-J500H 12 July 2016 Russia, Venezuela and Ukraine
SM-J500Y 21 September 2016 New Zealand
SM-J500FN 26 September 2016 United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Germany, Portugal, France, Czech Republic and Austria[2]

For the device, there is an unofficial Android 7.1.1 Nougat firmware based on the official Samsung firmware for SM-A530F.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ MobilMania.cz. "Samsung Galaxy J5". MobilMania.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Samsung Galaxy J5". www.gsmarena.com.
  3. ^ Chroust, Martin. "Samsung Galaxy J5: ...až tu nebude S3 Neo [recenze]". SamsungMania.MobilMania.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  4. ^ a b "Recenze Samsung Galaxy J5: Vytrvalec s dobrým fotoaparátem (nejen) pro mladé - SMARTmania.cz". SMARTmania.cz (in Czech). 2015-11-15. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  5. ^ "Samsung rolls out S Bike Mode to the Galaxy J2, Galaxy J5, and Galaxy J7 - SamMobile - SamMobile". www.sammobile.com. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  6. ^ "SEPerience-ROM A8 2018". forum.xda-developers.com. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
Preceded by
Samsung Galaxy J5
2015
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